Chapter 130 The cause of the patient's coma and the medical staff's reaction, the Ghost Doctor...

Xiao Shen is an ordinary orthopedic surgeon at Liwan Hospital. His daily work involves removing limbs and adjusting prosthetics for patients.

He was transferred from the research department of the supervisory bureau. Although his medical skills are unknown, he is very skilled at making prosthetics. In his spare time, he often makes some beautiful and practical prosthetics for his former colleagues and patients to replace.

In a sense, Liwan Hospital can be considered a branch of the research department. A large portion of the doctors here were transferred from the research department, and most medical staff use protective gear, have a good tolerance for paranormal events, and are capable of resolving paranormal events.

Xiao Shen, who came from the research department, thought he had seen all kinds of storms and would not be moved by any terrifying supernatural event... However, the events that have happened in the past two days have been constantly refreshing his understanding.

Yesterday, the fact that the entire building of Liwan Hospital, including doctors and patients, was almost dragged into an unknown space was nothing compared to what happened today.

Starting in the morning, many patients were brought to Liwan Hospital.

According to the investigators who transferred the patients, these patients inexplicably fell into a coma starting yesterday noon and remained asleep until this morning. They did not respond to any calls or slaps from others.

These patients were all scattered in different areas of Linjiang City, but they all fainted at the same time. Some were unconscious at home, and some were even working and cooking before going to bed.

The family and friends of the unconscious patients thought they had low blood sugar or had suffered a sudden cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease, so they immediately took them to a regular hospital.

Later, the ordinary hospitals, having received too many patients who had fallen into a coma at the same time, realized something was wrong and reported the matter to the supervisory bureau, asking them to handle it.

So this morning, all the patients who had inexplicably fallen into a deep sleep were transferred to Liwan Hospital.

Previously, Liwan Hospital only accepted patients injured by paranormal events and did not accept ordinary patients. Therefore, although the hospital only had one building, the number of wards was more than enough.

Now, more than a hundred patients have suddenly flooded in, and the observation ward on the third floor for mild paranormal pollution is soon overflowing.

The fourth and fifth floors of the hospital are the intensive observation area and the isolation and detention area. Not to mention that these two floors are already full, if these patients are put into these two floors, they may be contaminated by other supernatural forces, making their originally ordinary coma even more uncontrollable.

Therefore, after discussion among the hospital doctors, they temporarily placed the patient in the corridor from the first to the third floor.

Fortunately, family members are not allowed to enter the hospital, otherwise there would have been no room at all.

They were busy until noon before all the patients were settled.

The doctors and nurses in the hospital originally planned to tidy up the isolation meeting room on the first floor, as well as the pharmacy and doctors' offices on the second floor, after all the patients were settled, to make some space to temporarily place the sleeping patients in these rooms.

But before they could clean it up, something even stranger happened.

—The hospital suddenly gained an extra floor.

First, the hospital building trembled slightly, and then this non-existent sixth floor suddenly appeared in the minds of all the medical staff.

Just like when the hospital was first named "Liwan", the idea that "the hospital has six floors" suddenly appeared in their memories.

They knew something was wrong, but they couldn't quite put their finger on it... It was as if they were just NPCs in a game, and the game's creator had added a setting that they only needed to accept without question.

When the incident occurred on the sixth floor, Xiao Shen, who was having lunch on the rooftop, was the most affected.

After a busy half-day, he had planned to take a break and grab a bite to eat after all the patients had been settled.

However, he was destined not to enjoy his meal.

Just as Xiao Shen opened his lunchbox and took a bite, several load-bearing pillars sprouted up on the rooftop like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

He chewed mechanically a couple of times, staring in disbelief as the load-bearing columns and steel bars grew strong and quickly wove together the steel framework of a floor.

Then, the building walls appeared layer by layer, like 3D printing, filling all the gaps between the steel bars.

Then came the interior decoration of the ward partitions, doors and windows, water and electricity pipes, walls, floors and ceilings... In the end, a new floor was built out of thin air.

Xiao Shen, who was sitting on the rooftop, appeared in a ward on the new floor. He stared blankly at the new floor, the food he had just put in his mouth still unswallowed.

Before Xiao Shen's brain could process the fact that "the hospital has added a floor," his ward also changed.

Hospital beds, IV stands, bedside tables, vital sign monitoring equipment, etc., slowly emerge in the room and automatically adjust their positions, quickly setting up a three-person ward... as if an invisible hand is adjusting its miniature toy building set.

Xiao Shen stared blankly at the brand-new ward in front of him, his Adam's apple bobbing, before finally swallowing the mouthful of food in his mouth.

The series of enormous shocks left him at a loss for how to react. He simply lowered his head, looked at the still-warm lunch in his lunchbox, remained silent for a moment, and finally chose to quickly shovel the food into his mouth.

Since things have come to this, let's eat first and replenish our energy before we talk about anything else.

Just as the medical staff were trying to accept the 'non-existent sixth floor', an even stranger scene unfolded—the unconscious patients who had been transferred to the hospital that morning were disappearing one by one.

Moreover, the way they disappeared was particularly bizarre: they suddenly rose vertically along with their hospital bed and then disappeared near the ceiling of the floor.

This threw all the medical staff in the hospital into complete panic.

Just as they were about to press the hospital's alarm button to notify the supervisory bureau, their new director, Ke Yan, stepped in to take charge.

With Ke Yan's reassurance, the medical staff learned that the patients had been moved to the sixth floor.

They arrived at the new floor with some skepticism, and breathed a sigh of relief when they found that all the patients had been placed in wards.

These successive shocks were a real test of their psychological resilience. Even though they were members of the monitoring bureau who were quite accepting of paranormal events, they still couldn't help but question their existence when faced with such bizarre scenes.

Thanks to Ke Yan's intervention, the panic caused by the "sudden appearance of a floor" and the "disappearance and transfer of all patients" gradually subsided, and the hospital resumed its orderly operation.

Xiao Shen also calmly accepted the fact that the hospital had an extra floor.

After finishing his meal, he stayed on the sixth floor to help his colleagues check on the patients who were in a coma.

Xiao Shen believes that it is enough for him to patrol the sixth floor alone. Since the cause of the patient's illness is currently unknown, there is no need for too many doctors to take care of him. The most important thing is to study a treatment plan as soon as possible.

After confirming that the newly discovered sixth floor posed no danger, the doctors agreed with Xiao Shen's decision. Some continued to monitor the other floors, while others held an emergency meeting to discuss treatment options.

Zhou Fangdong's location at Liwan Hospital was a ward on the sixth floor.

Xiao Shen happened to be inspecting this room.

Seeing Zhou Fangdong's figure appear out of thin air in the ward, Xiao Shen was not flustered at all, but just showed a calm smile.

His current state of mind is unusually peaceful, with a faint sense of death, as if he has taken everything lightly and transcended worldly concerns.

It's like witnessing a dragon abduct a king, receiving an invitation to the dragon and the king's wedding, and then seeing a princess preparing to destroy the world, with a hero taking up his sword to fight her—no one would be surprised.

Xiao Shen felt that she should have been mentally prepared when she learned that the hospital had become 'Liwan Hospital'.

After all, the hospital had become the property of the landlord of Liwan Apartments; it was just an extra floor added out of thin air... On the bright side, at least the hospital wasn't haunted like Liwan Apartments, which was already a good thing.

After getting a clear picture of the situation on the sixth floor of the hospital, Zhou Fangdong decided to first select a few ghost doctors from the morgue before investigating the cause of the patients' illnesses, and then have Ke Yan go to the morgue to create corpse nurses and corpse caregivers.

Upon arriving at Liwan Hospital, he realized just how severely the hospital was short-staffed—there was only one doctor making rounds on the sixth floor, despite the many wards there.

This workload was too much for the doctor.

One doctor is probably responsible for three wards.

The six floors are all three-person wards, which means one doctor is responsible for nine patients... If there are 30 wards, nine more ghost doctors will be needed.

"System, are there enough doctor ghosts in the morgue's prize pool?"

The ghosts of all the doctors who died in hospitals throughout Linjiang City are stored in the prize pool of the Liwan Hospital morgue. The ghosts of the members and investigators of the Supervision Bureau who sacrificed their lives are also stored in the morgue. No matter what the host wants to draw, there is more than enough.

With the system's guarantee, Zhou Fangdong felt at ease.

He opened the lottery page.

Originally, his lottery page background was two dark buildings with a large roulette wheel above them. You could use this roulette wheel to draw supernatural items or ghost tenants in the back building of the apartment.

The lottery page has changed a bit. Next to the two buildings, there's a small building about the size of a bench with a small wheel on top that has illegible text—this should be the lottery system for the hospital morgue.

Drawing prizes on the lottery page requires no Ghost Coins; there are no costs whatsoever. Whether the prizes you win are useful or not depends entirely on luck.

The reason Zhou Fangdong left the lottery function idle was because he knew his own limitations... his luck was really not that good.

However, since all the ghost doctors in the city are in the prize pool this time, Zhou Fangdong is still very confident that he can draw a ghost doctor.

He started spinning the lottery wheel on the small building.

A-rank investigator ghost, B-rank investigator ghost, A-rank investigator ghost...

After ten draws, I was surprised to find that all the ones I drew were investigators.

Zhou Fangdong almost laughed out of anger.

Damn lottery system.

Today he's determined to stick with this lottery system. Anyway, Liwan Hospital is big enough to hold a lot of ghosts. He doesn't believe that even if he empties the morgue's prize pool, he still won't be able to win a ghost doctor.

After a hundred draws, Zhou Fangdong finally drew nine Ghost Doctors, and he closed the lottery page with satisfaction.

He placed the ghostly investigators who had regained their senses in hospital caregiver positions, tasking them with looking after and looking after the patients. Then he assigned the nine ghostly doctors to the sixth floor, tasking them with patrolling the wards of the comatose patients.

When Xiao Shen saw one after another hideous, bloodthirsty ghostly figures appearing around the landlord of Liwan Apartment, his calm smile froze on his face.

He was just too naive.

Given the current situation, following the infamous haunted building, Liwan Apartment, their hospital will likely become an infamous haunted hospital as well.

After Zhou Fangdong finished smoking the ghost doctor and helped the poor doctor with his workload, he began to examine the cause of the unconscious patient's illness.

He directly used the appraisal ability of the [Heavenly Eye] skill.

The diagnostic ability gained from the back building could even see the main god's curse on Xiao Xiaoyu, making it incredibly easy to identify the cause of a patient's illness.

However, after figuring out why these patients were unconscious, Zhou Fangdong frowned.

...It was actually the Supreme God.

Zhou Fangdong walked around every ward on the sixth floor, confirming that each of the unconscious patients had a blue, illusory eye-shaped symbol above their heads.

The eye, drawn with simple lines, is very lifelike, with the round pupil between the two arcs darting around.

He was very familiar with this symbol; Xiao Xiaoyu also had one on her head, except that Xiao Xiaoyu's symbol was red and her eyes were closed.

The fact that the accident at Liwan Hospital was caused by the main god was something Zhou Fangdong hadn't expected; he had thought it was some hidden evil god.

With the [Heavenly Eye] skill, Zhou Fangdong saw that these patients had been in a deep sleep because their life souls had all disappeared.

Adding to the curses from the main god above the patients' heads, he deduced that their souls must have been pulled into the dungeon by the main god.

Although it's relatively easy to corrupt the main god's dungeon, you can simply let the tenants enter the dungeon and cause trouble, allowing the ghosts in the tenants' rooms to corrupt the dungeon.

...But the most important issue now is how to find the main god's copy.

Zhou Fangdong sighed. The main god was really working hard, constantly adjusting the plan for the descent dungeon in order to better capture players.

The main god initially descended into the real world to summon people from the instance, but because it was constantly hindered by the 'evil god' and in order to avoid the investigation of the Bureau of Surveillance, it descended the instance into the mirror world.

Then the mirror world was occupied by the 'evil god', and the dungeon was also destroyed by the 'evil god'. So the main god hid in the void rift and created a dungeon, trying to erode the apartment to replenish his power. As a result, he was tricked by the 'evil god' who arrived at the apartment in advance.

Now, the ultimate evolutionary god has finally come up with a way to abduct players, ensuring that the dungeon is neither interfered with by the evil god nor detected by the surveillance bureau...

Pull people directly in your dreams.

Don't worry about not having a physical body; the God Space has plenty of player bodies that have lost their souls due to various accidents.

Because the instance is hidden and requires special conditions to enter, the 'evil god' has no way to interfere.

This method was perfect; until a medium for entering the instance was found, Zhou Fangdong was unable to enter the hidden main god instance.

To awaken these patients, it is necessary to know what mediums they have been exposed to, or what commonalities they share.

The initial office building main dungeon was entered by players who had worked in office buildings.

The players who were pulled into the Agricultural University Auditorium instance were all recent graduates in the auditorium.

Zhu Di and Su Wan entered the Yin Yang Town instance privately because they came across a tourist flyer for the town.

Those ordinary citizens entered the Mirror World instance because of the mirror...

What do these patients have in common?

Zhou Fangdong obtained the patients' medical records from Dr. Shen and looked through the patients' information.

These patients included office workers in their thirties, real estate agents, car salesmen, housewives, small supermarket or vegetable market owners, freelancers... covering all walks of life, men and women, young and old, and people of all genders and ages. It was hard to find anything in common at first glance.

Because the patient's symptoms were all related to being drowsy and unable to wake up, the inspection bureau suspected that it might be due to clothing, pillows, or accidentally eating the same food.

They investigated all of these first, but found nothing in common.

The Inspectorate is currently screening the social circles of these patients. Because there are too many people, it will take about another hour to complete the investigation.

During this time, Zhou Fangdong felt that he couldn't just wait idly, so he decided to use the simplest method to bring back the souls of these patients.

He planned to have a Taoist priest specializing in exorcising zombies come to the hospital to summon their spirits.

Ideally, the patient's soul could be recalled without dealing with the duplicates, but if not, it wouldn't cause any problems.

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Author's Note: Bonus chapter at 9 PM tonight.